On Aug 1, 8:02*am, songbird wrote:
Gunner wrote:

http://www.re-char.com/2011/07/19/se...raight-on-bioc...

* reads like a lightweight blog post but it
fairly reflects what i've seen elsewhere.

i have no idea what a biomass stove
is... i haven't looked it up.
(snipped from below)


Really,.... Biochar? Well Bird, you need to have an " idea what a
biomass stove
is... " to understand biochar.

Charcoal, on the other hand? Yah. just burn a bunch of wood, perhaps
you will get some benefit somehow, maybe as a fluffly stuff or as a
nutrient source of some sort, otherwise you just blowing smoke L&F.
Wood ashes contain about 6 per cent potash, plus a good bit of some
lime. A good burn of Corn cobs might give you more potash for your
particular soil- 20-30 % perhaps. Just don't burn manure plies for
the ash. So again, regardless of a soil test or a soil taste, what
does the soil type need? A bit more potassium and Lime? Any idea of
the pH your plant need? Misuse, as well as overuse is stupid. I
think most will agree to that, except maybe billy. It has to be his
lazy man, no till, bury it and they will come but you have to endure
his political BS enroute

* frauds and scammers galore, the buyer should
always educate themself.

As the man adeptly points out in his "lightweight article" and the
reason I gave it. Zealots like billy attempt to BS about it being
some sorta panacea mysticism. But that is just pseudoscience version
billy pushes. The little pearl of an epiphany that only the devout
can see. So you buy into his version? Does "evil chemferts" kill
soil?

Really you want to read deeper or R U just posturing for position
like billy? If so join in one of the Google Biochar groups like
this" http://groups.google.com/group/bioch...32ea18b4bc957a.

Please take note, these guys are not the usual Book Writers oft
referenced here as subject matter experts. Some of these guys are
real serious players and not so theory lite, although your results
may vary in your locale. Perhaps you can translate for billy as he &
his are still a bit clueless since they read 1491 and this lame
attempt to integrate terrre peta into to his great global hope will
get some sort of traction.

Still gotta say I am impressed with your Shamanista abilities in
analyzing that man's soil solely over the Internet, quite a mystic
feat. Indulge me for a moment for curiosity sake, what was the CEC
and potassium level of the man's soil?

BTW, still the answer is YES, it is OK to use Miracle Gro, but you
know that. The rest is just posturing